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Stated Meeting, Jlugust 18. 



Present, eight members. 



Judge Kane, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Letters were read: — 



From Prof. Wolcott Gibbs, dated New York, July 28, 1854, 

 and from Prof. James D. Dana, dated New Haven, July 30, 

 1854, acknowledging the receipt of notice of their election as 

 members of the Society: — 



From the Royal Society of London, dated Somerset House, 

 Feb. 24, 1854, returning thanks for Part 2, Vol. X. of the 

 Transactions, and for No. 48 of the Proceedings of this So- 

 ciety:— 



From the Connecticut Historical Society, dated Hartford, 

 July 21, 1854; — from the Trustees of the State Library of 

 New York, dated Albany, July 22, 1854 ; — from the New 

 Jersey Historical Society, dated Newark, July 26, 1854 ; — 

 from the American Antiquarian Society, dated Worcester, 

 Mass., Aug. 8, 1854; — from the Historical Society of Penn- 

 sylvania, dated Philadelphia, August 9, 1854, — severally com- 

 municating thanks for No. 51 of the Society's Proceedings: — 



From the Society of the Museum of Natural History of 

 Strasburg, dated January 2, 1854 ; — from the Secretary of 

 I'Ecole des Mines, dated Paris, Feb. 14, 1854; — from the 

 Imperial Geological Institute at Vienna, dated March 19, 

 1854, — each announcing donations for the library of the So- 

 ciety. 



The following donations were announced: — 



FOR THE LIBRARY. 



Memoires de la Societe du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle de Stras- 

 bourg. Tomes I. II. III. IV. Strasbourg, 1833. 1853. 4to.— 

 From the Society. 



Annales des Mines. V. Serie. Tome IV. 5 livraison de 1853. 

 Paris. 8vo. — From the Engineers of VEcole des Mines, 

 Public Documents of the United States, as follows: 



Executive Documents, 2d Session of 32d Congress, 1852, '53, 11 vols. 



